Vascular Biology

2025

Just another type of fish
ADAMTS18 regulates ECM turnover via fibronectin cleavage
Delivery still limits VEGF therapy
An impossible overlap-extension PCR
VEGFC-loaded Lignin Nanoparticles
Billion-dollar gamble

2024

Our lab won’t go bancrupt in 2025!
What do we really know about lipedema?
Do fish have difficulty breathing?
Do fish have lymphatics?

2023

Congratulations, Dr. Khushbu Rauniyar!
Cutting-edge vascular biology continues at the Wihuri Research Institute
OMG: T. rex did not have VEGF-B!

2022

Bioactive VEGF-C from E. coli without in-vitro folding!
Making the cut: Why VEGF-C != VEGF-C
The evolution of PDGF/VEGF growth factors
“Bioactive VEGF-C from E. coli cytoplasm” preprint online
Lymphatics as the origin of the fish secondary vascular system

2021

KLK3: tumorigenic or not?
  1. Swiss Lymphsymposium
Searching for a lymphedema drug
MDPI peer review reviewed
Preprint and Open Review

2020

VEGF-C protects blood cell production
Review published in Duodecim: Lymphatics and the eye
Dr. Sawan K. Jha: Mechanism of VEGF-C Activation […]
Lymphatics and the eye

2019

Lymphologie 2019
ISK 2019
Re-purposing the growth factor VEGF-C
Lymphologische (Grundlagen-)Forschung: wie funktioniert das?
KLK3/PSA and cathepsin D activate VEGF-C and VEGF-D
1000+ citations

2018

International Vascular Biology Meeting 2018 organizational feedback
Minireview about key molecules in lymphatic development, function, and identification
IVBM 2018 & 2020 (poster, talk, and virtual poster walk through)
VEGF-C Re­view in Fron­ti­ers in Bioen­gin­eer­ing and Bi­o­tech­no­logy

2017

20th International Vascular Biology Meeting in Helsinki, Finland
Lymphologica 2017
Essentials facts about VEGF-C in lymphology
A Very Short History of Antiangiogenic Tumor Treatment
Angiogenesis landmark publications
Science good, coffee bad

2016

RPU Seminar 2016
Centrifugal and centripetal embryonic lymphatic development

2015

This year’s Nobel prizes
Erkrankungen des Lymphgefäßsystems (Diseases of the Lymphatic System)
Lymphangiogenesis in health and disease
Best paper award

2014

  1. Annual Congress of the German Society for Lymphology
New Mechanisms of Lymphangiogenesis and Lymphedema
From the molecular biological foundations to causal treatment options for diseases of the lymphatic system
We got featured by Circulation!
The molecular basis of Hennekam syndrome
SVS or lymphatic system?
Historic articles about the lymphatic system
Permission to self-archive

2013

A Nobel Prize for angiogenesis research?
Self Archiving and Open Access

2012

Lymphangiogenese-Regulation durch Wachstumsfaktoren

2011

Introduction into lymphatic research
Structure/function relationships within the VEGF/VEGF receptor families

2010

VEGF-C/VEGFR-2 complex structure took 13 years to solve

2009

Recombinant proteins

2008

Judah Folkman dies at age 74

2006

Growth factor regulation of lymphangiogenesis

2005

Unlocking the drains

2004

FEBS 2004

2003

What you should know about VEGF-C

2002

The Best of 2002
Michael Jeltsch’s PhD thesis
Lab seminar: Cystine knot proteins
Lymphatics in Different Vertebrate Classes

2001

Dissecting Lymphangiogenesis and Angiogenesis
Lab seminar: Chicken kick ass

2000

Kloster Seeon Conference (October 1-4, 2000): Exploring the VEGF protein space

1999

Projects in the Molecular/Cancer Biology Laboratory
The Alphabet of Angiogenesis

1998

The Alphabet of Angiogenesis

1997

Recombinant Protein Production, CAM Assays, VEGF-D, Transgenic Mice
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Biochemistry/Molecular biology researcher and teacher